Claimant too ‘shocked’ to tell alleged rapist to stop, court hears

A teenage girl who told police she was raped with her friend by two men at a stranger’s house party when the girls were both 14 testified Friday that her alleged assailant didn’t have an erection during the incident.

The girl also said she was too “shocked” to speak and therefore did not tell him to stop, though at one point she said “wait.” She told the court that she was scared and did not want to do anything sexual with the man whose name she didn’t even know, but that things happened too fast for her to object much.

She did try to get off the bed, she said, but the man pulled her back down.

The girls, who cannot be named by court order, told police they were walking down Mill Street in November 2009 when some “older guys” they didn’t know called out to them from a porch and invited them to a party. The girls said they went to the house for a while, then joined the group on a walk to Spicoli’s bar on Sandwich Street, where they were not asked for ID.

The underage girls soon said they wanted to leave but had to return to the house to pick up their things. They left with one of the accused, Stan Joseph Laforge, 26. The other accused, Curtis James Scott, 31, followed shortly behind with friends from the bar.

The two Windsor men are charged with sexual assault, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and unlawful confinement in relation to alleged incidents in Nov. 22, 2009.

The girl testified Friday she and her friend took off their coats when they arrived back at the house. Shortly someone called them upstairs. They went up to find Laforge in a bedroom.

The girl told the court that Laforge directed her friend, who was drunk, to the bed. She watched the two “rolling around” for a few moments before Scott came in and put his hands on her hips and started kissing her neck.

She said he guided her to the foot of the bed where he continued touching her. She said he pulled her pants down to her ankles and that she kicked them off the rest of the way so that she could move away better.

She said he pushed her legs apart and moved her underwear to one side.

“Not really,” replied the girl, who said Scott twice tried to have intercourse with her.

Did his penis penetrate her, Schwalm wondered?

“It kind of did,” she testified. “He kept trying to put it in and it wouldn’t go in.”

She said it “wasn’t working” and that she pushed Scott away. She recalled that she said, “Wait,” and tried to get off the bed but that he pulled her back down.

Schwalm asked if the girl wanted Scott do anything sexual with her. She said no.

Schwalm also asked what she did or said. She said, “Nothing.”

“I was scared,” said the girl, who noted that she had never before been in a similar situation. “I just kind of went along with it trying to keep myself safe.”

Schwalm asked what was happening with her friend at the time. The girl said her friend was “fooling around” closer to the head of the bed with Laforge. She said some of their clothes were off and that they were “grunting and groaning and moving around.”

But she also heard her friend getting louder, saying, “Wait, wait.”

After about 20 to 30 minutes in the bedroom, she said her friend got up and that they both grabbed their clothes and left. Nobody escorted them to the door. Her friend carried her underwear in her hand.

The pair walked into her friend’s apartment, where she said they both cried. They called two male friends to meet them, before her friend’s mother came home to find her daughter upset. The girl said her friend’s mother must have phoned police, who soon showed up at the door.

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